Beyond Globalization: Capitalism, Territoriality And The International Relations Of Modernity

Hannes Lacher seeks to rescue the study of globalization from globalists and sceptics alike by putting the globalization debate on a new foundation and offering a re-interpretation of the international relations of modernity.In an age when so many of the myths of globalization have been shattered, and imperial power projection has eclipsed the anticipated multilateral system of global governance, it is necessary to reconceptualize world order politics, and the relationship between territorial states and global markets more generally. In this important book, Hannes Lacher traces the modern disjuncture of the spaces of economic organization and political governance to the territorial prefiguration of capitalism, and analyzes the distinctive strategies through which states and social forces sought to overcome this gap in historically changing socio-spatial regimes.This essential new volume leads us towards a critical social theory of international relations that questions, more fundamentally thanever before, the prevailing conceptions of the modern international political economy as a collection of nationally bounded spaces. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of international relations, political science, historical materialism, political geography, and sociology.